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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1943
Page
2
A wartime appeal urges Bristol women to work in factories producing wire, cloth and footwear. It contrasts returning soldiers with workers now abroad and asks housewives to reconsider full time factory roles, emphasizing national need and personal payoff from such service.
Dr Joseph Castronova will visit Colt Memorial School Tuesday March 23 to conduct tuberculosis tests. The Gremial Daughters of Portugal meet Thursday at Mrs Alice Wilkie on State Street. Miss Julie E Ferreira of Washington DC visits her mother on 42 Cottage Street. The Elementary PTA Executive Board meets Thursday at Oliver School 3 15 pm. Rotary Club program tomorrow noon features musical selections and group singing. Lenten services held weekly at Trinity Chapel State and High streets with mass at 830 am and evening service at 730 pm. Corp Eugene Langevine promoted to sergeant. Sgt Tangevine attached to a bombing squadron in Florida. Nelson Beals promoted to Private First Class, Army Air Corps, at Scott Field Illinois. Purim services at Agudas Achim Temple High Street Sunday March 21 at 7 pm with hymn to servicemen. Countryside Garden Club meets at Mrs Charles McConners 57 Burton Street Thursday 240 pm to discuss Victory Gardens and canning. Daughters of Isabella Hone Circle plans bridge whist Wednesday March 31 replacing annual banquet. Ernest A Meigges Jr of 154 Wood Street promoted to Private First Class in Army Air Corps radio course in Sioux Falls SD. Young People's Fellowship St Michael's Church shows pictures on Bowling Aces Diving and Battle of the Coral Sea at Holmes House. Carl T Carlson operated the projector. A benefit bingo for the Portuguese Beneficial Association Don Juiz Felipe will be held Saturday in Lincoln Hall Usher Avenue. committee includes Mrs Dina Vasconcellas Mrs Mary Soute Mrs Mary Ribeiro Miss Mary Pontes Mrs Jeantna Victoria and Mrs Isabil Carlos.
Elmer R Smith of the Providence School Department will speak today at the Bristol Teachers Association meeting in Reynolds School at 3 o clock. He will discuss Curriculum Changes and Byfield School teachers will host and serve refreshments.
Church notices list weekly Lenten services at St Marys and St Elizabeths with several preachers. Rev Norman Le Boeuf will speak Tuesday 7:30 at St Marys, Rev Silvino Raposo Friday 7:30 at St Elizabeths. A Wednesday Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel precedes Benediction and two Friday Masses at 7 and 8 am followed by Stations of the Cross at 7:30.
An Army call for Red Cross dressings drew 125 Bristol volunteers who logged 506 hours daily last week. They shipped 3,000 dressings on Thursday, 2,500 and 240 masks on Saturday, with Mrs. Henry Wood praising the effort and urging higher production. Providence shipments totaled 336,540 dressings with 71,400 completed in 20 days, including 4,800 masks.
Scouts of the First Bristol Troop, Boy Scouts of America, held a Town Meeting in Scout Hall last evening. They adopted a yearly budget, planned monthly hikes, overnight treks every two months, and signed up for Camp Yawgoog's fast week. Flying Horse patrol led by Joseph Arruda won most games and earned high discipline. Next Monday will feature former troop officials now in the armed services visiting, with a special program planned. Green Bar Scouts will meet Thursday to finalize plans.
Kearney Post No 6 of the American Legion has 111 members toward a quota of 118. Seven more members are needed to exceed the target, with Donald Gladue and his committee pressing to meet the nationwide telegraphic report deadline.
A victory banquet for successful town office candidates will be held Sunday March 28 at the Colonial Hotel. Joseph J Marshall chairs the arrangements with Frank Sylvia Lucie Capone Raymond Cavallaro Earle Mathewson Harold Newman Mrs Fileen Pierce Alphonse Rebello and Gilda Sousa among the committee members.
Word reached here Saturday that Mrs Mildred H Davin died suddenly at her West Medway Massachusetts home. Funeral was held today. She was wife of Edwin Davin Everett Massachusetts and daughter of Frederick and Katherine Hiltz. She lived in Bristol where she joined First Congregational Church and started the Netopian Society. She belonged to Bristol Chapter D A R and served as matron at the Benjamin Church Home. Survived by husband and daughter Dorothea Luther.
In a fast paced Bristol Y game the Vikings beat U S Rubber 27 to 24 as a late burst gave them the edge. Standouts included Santo Toapazio Ramos Sousa Tappera Murgo and Cardoza.
William M McCarthy of 326 Wood Street has finished basic training at the Naval Training Station in Newport and qualified for enrollment in a Navy Hospital Corps school. A Colt Memorial High School graduate he played basketball football and baseball and served as a Red Cross Senior Life Saver. His brother John is in the Army, and McCarthy previously worked as a shipping clerk for Carr Manufacturing.
Industrial Relations Dept at U S Rubber Co in Bristol Rhode Island calls for local residents to register available rooms to support the war effort. Prompt response requested from households and businesses willing to lend space for workers and operations.
Bristol Congregational women will hear Dr James E Walters associate secretary missions council America at 230 in Gutteras House. Mrs Arthur Rae and Mrs Samuel Steen hostesses. Mrs Henry L Sanford presides. First Congregational Church mid week Lenten service at 730 in Gutteras House meeting room. Roswell Bosworth leads Gospel Hymns. Rev Herbert D Graetz conducts devotional. Community Lenten service preacher Rev Dr Lauriston I Scarfe at 430 next Sunday in First Congregational Church.
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